Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Rupp Arena Locker Rooms Renovated


{Lexington, Kentucky}…During a tour of the renovated locker room complex at Rupp Arena Tuesday, DeWayne Peevy, UK's executive associate athletics director, said Joe Craft, the coal magnate behind the Joe Craft Center and the Wildcat Coal Lodge, will donate the majority of the $2.5 million that has been raised to date for the Joe Craft Basketball Suite. Also, $1 million has been given by Sarah Healy and the late Jerry Healy of Lexington, whose names adorn the entrance to the circular, wood-panelled locker room. The cost of the entire project is estimated at roughly $3.1 million. Peevy says most of the fundraising was done by men's basketball coach John Calipari.